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UN Committee Presses Chile, Nepal to Loosen Abortion Restrictions The United Nations Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee has called for the nations of Chile and Nepal to change their laws concerning abortion. Chile is one of the few countries in which abortion remains illegal in all cases.

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Pop Control for Squirrels? Just Plain Nuts!

It appears as though not even the inhabitants of the remote English countryside are free from the clutches of those seeking to limit the growth of the world’s population. According to recent reports from the BBC Online News Network, there is a new audience being

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Serbian War Crimes, UNFPA and Crimes Against Humanity

[Editor’s note: The Population Research Institute, in its Weekly Briefing, 1 June 1999 Vol. 1/Number 3, expressed concerns over a document released by UNFPA, entitled Assessment Report on Sexual Violence in Kosovo. PRI raised concerns that, in issuing its report, the UNFPA misrepresented war crimes

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War Tactics and Population Control

Rape, in times of war, is as old as the Bible and as new as today’s headlines on the Kosovar refugee crisis. From the military laws laid out in Deuteronomy1 to the recent Serbian threat, victims of rape seem as much a part of a

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China, the UNFPA, and ‘Reproductive Rights’

May 17, 1999 Volume 1/ Number China, the UNFPA, and ‘Reproductive Rights’ Zhu Qingping begged not to be sent back to China. Eight months pregnant with her second child, she was certain that she would be aborted upon arrival. Let her remain in the immigration

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U.S. Congress to United Nations: Curb Population Control Abuses

The U.S. House of Representatives on March 23 passed a resolution urging the U.N. to respect the rights of individuals and families in population control programs, including those administered by the U.N. Population Fund (UNFPA). The resolution, modeled upon the Tiahrt Amendment signed into law

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UN Committee Presses Chile, Nepal to Loosen Abortion Restrictions The United Nations Women’s Anti-Discrimination Committee has called for the nations of Chile and Nepal to

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